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nouna structure housing machinery and other equipment at the top of a mine shaft. Origin of shaft houseFirst recorded in 1870–75 Words nearby shaft houseshaft alley, Shaftesbury, shaft feather, shaft grave, shaft horsepower, shaft house, shafting, shag, shaganappi, shagbark, shaggable Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for shaft house"It's that fellow Struve," he explained to the astonished engineer in the shaft-house. A Texas Ranger|William MacLeod Raine A few men idly came and went about the shaft-house and ore-dump, but otherwise the entire claim appeared deserted. Beth Norvell|Randall Parrish Anyhow, Johnson says he took the fellow out to his surrey from the shaft-house of the Mal Pais under his gun. A Texas Ranger|William MacLeod Raine The shaft-house of the Gray Eagle was the last but one at the upper extremity of the ravine along which Crusoe straggled. Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim|Carrie L. Marshall
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